{"id":4116,"date":"2019-09-23T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/163.180.4.222\/lab\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2019-09-23T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:39:46","slug":"c-section-babies-are-missing-key-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biochemistry.khu.ac.kr\/lab\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"C-section babies are missing key microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK study provides the best evidence yet that the way infants are born can alter their microbiomes \u2014 but the health effects are unclear.<\/h5>\n

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Babies born through the vaginal canal host different microbes compared with those delivered by c-section.<\/span>Credit: mustafagull\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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How a baby is born has a profound impact on their\u00a0microbiome<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the community of microbes that colonize the body.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the finding of the largest ever study of the newborn microbiome, which offers the strongest evidence yet that children born through the vaginal canal carry different microbes from those delivered by caesarean section. Newborns delivered by c-section, the study found, tend to lack strains of gut bacteria found in healthy children and adults. Instead, their guts harbour harmful microbes that are common in hospitals.<\/p>\n

The study, which analysed nearly 600 births in the United Kingdom, did not look at whether these microbial differences can affect health later in life. But the presence of disease-causing bacteria is a concern, says Trevor Lawley, a microbiologist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, who led the work1<\/a><\/sup>, published in\u00a0Nature<\/i>\u00a0on 18 September. \u201cThe level of colonization by health-care pathogens is shocking in these children. When I first saw the data, I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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